Wondering how virtual labs can help your students (and you!) make the most of your time in the real lab? Curious about whether virtual labs can help your students visualize abstract concepts and have their own lightbulb moments? Labster’s own Carlin Robinson addresses lots of your FAQs about teaching high school science with virtual labs.
Memorable Moments:
Carlin: [00:02:17] For me, the high school age is the perfect time for students to start growing an interest in solutions that can help us through things like this in the future.
SJ: [00:06:42] We're in a very unique position to visualize or create interactions around abstract concepts to help students kind of break through the threshold concepts that are so hard to break and have their own lightbulb moments.
SJ: [00:10:53] Class sizes are getting larger, teachers are stretched. They have a lot more planning to do. They have a lot more a lot more to do in order to provide learning experiences for their students … I see the virtual lab as a tool that can help me optimize the way that I deliver my teaching.
SJ: [00:12:00] To me, having a virtual lab where a student can think about the protocol that they're going to do, they can do it, they can get it wrong ... so when they come in, they are feeling, 'I know what I'm doing. When I stand at this lab bench and I pick up my pipette, I know what I'm doing.'
SJ: [00:12:52] To me, virtual labs could offer that little helping hand in ensuring that students are getting the preparation or the preliminary knowledge that they need in order to make the most of those more expensive or time consuming or difficult to give experiences like being in a wet lab.
Carlin: [00:26:00] We really can do the majority of the heavy lifting for teachers who are going to be using a simulation for the first time - seamless, turnkey, that is ultimately the experience
Episode 9 Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UaVVdGJFaVcqxuDmr6PmC3ZFhWyDRGToaxvWxOd94zo/edit?usp=sharing
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